Chapter Summaries

Roy subdued Melina after she emerged from his ring and attacked him, discovering that she had become a Beastified Evil Spirit. He used his Hypnosis Glasses to calm and control her, leaving her obedient to his commands.

• Melina sprang from the ring, bit Roy, and attacked him, but Roy restrained her with his Spiritual Power.
• Roy questioned how Melina had survived and realized the spell she chanted before her death might have preserved her spirit.
• Roy identified Melina as a Canine Evil Spirit, transformed into a Beastified Evil Spirit through an Evil Ritual.
• Melina could not communicate coherently, so Roy used his Hypnosis Glasses and Narcissus Love to charm her.
• Roy commanded Melina to get down and wag her tail, and she obeyed.

Roy investigated Melina’s transformation into a Beastified Evil Spirit, bound her with a contract, and discovered a Bronze-grade Soul Recipe for refining canine spirits. His first experiment went wrong when Melina devoured the unfinished souls, causing her to transform into a gigantic white hound.

• Roy explained Melina’s history and transformation to Winsbell and Planje, then searched her belongings for clues about how she had gained such power.
• Roy decided to keep Melina as leverage against her sister Ilena and made her sign a devil’s contract.
• Roy studied Melina’s spell materials and used the Catalog of All Studies to learn the Bronze-grade Beastified Evil Spirit (Canine Spirit) Soul Recipe.
• Roy bought canine creatures, killed them, and tried to capture their souls for refinement, but Melina tore apart and devoured the unfinished souls and his remaining Spiritual Resource.
• Melina’s bestiality surged, and she transformed into a massive white hound as Winsbell, Planje, and Domi watched in astonishment.

Roy reviewed a Witch Tower mission to protect Chalk Country from extradimensional creatures during the Dark Star Ascending, then traveled there with Winsbell, Planje, and Melina. After monsters entered the rift, Roy joined four other wizards and they crossed into Chalk Country together.

• Melina's Soul Foundation and Spiritual Power surged, prompting Roy to consider helping her advance and experimenting with alchemy.
• Sailen explained the Witch Tower's plans to send wizards into Chalk Country to clear extradimensional creatures, and Roy asked for the mission details.
• On December 10, Roy traveled to the Great Wind Land Hills with Winsbell, Planje, and Melina as Dark Star Ascending opened a rift.
• Local monsters rushed through the rift, and Roy waited for the other mission participants to arrive.
• Roy revealed himself to the four arriving wizards, and the five entered the Space-Time Tunnel into Chalk Country.

Roy met four other Level 1 wizards assigned to investigate the Faded Desert, and they agreed to divide the area among themselves. After exchanging contact information, Roy headed with his followers toward the hive using his more detailed map.

• Tirros, Shan Lut, Della, and Bodeka introduced themselves and presented their mission credentials.
• The other wizards recognized Roy as a powerful Peak Level 1 wizard and asked what he knew about the Faded Desert, but Roy said he had been away for about a hundred years.
• Tirros showed the group the Witch Tower's map and explained the mission to investigate the area and eliminate outsiders.
• Tirros proposed that each wizard take responsibility for a separate area and call the others for help when needed, and the group agreed.
• The wizards exchanged contact information and dispersed, and Roy summoned a magic carpet to take his followers toward the hive.

Roy searched Chalk Country for the Blood Seal Demon Bees, but found their old hive abandoned and followed their likely migration route toward the Flesh Swamp. After defeating a group of Abyssal Quasits for his mission, he discovered that some had been stung by the bees, confirming the colony was nearby.

• Roy used Sailen’s composite map to search for the Blood Seal Demon Bees’ hive and reached its old site near the Flesh Swamp.
• Planje judged that the hive had been abandoned for years, and Sailen’s Maiden’s Skull estimated it had been empty for about seventeen and a half years.
• Roy concluded the bees had likely migrated north toward the Flesh Swamp and continued searching through the more dangerous region.
• Roy spotted a group of Quasits, photographed them as mission evidence, and killed them with his companions.
• Planje noticed that several Quasits had swollen, infected-looking wounds, and Roy identified them as stings from Blood Seal Demon Bees.

Roy followed the trail of demon bees with Melina and discovered a giant beehive housing thousands of dangerous creatures. He summoned Dadaru'er in its Steel Behemoth form to attack the nest, beginning the battle to destroy it.

• Roy found a poisonous Blood Seal Demon Bee stinger in a demon's wound and concluded the attack had happened nearby.
• Roy asked Melina to track the demons by smell, and she led him to the bodies of slain Blood Seal Demon Bees.
• Melina followed the bees' scent nearly a hundred kilometers to a castle-sized hive on a mountainside.
• Roy and Planje assessed the hive's thousands of bees and the likely threat of powerful mutated bees and a queen.
• Roy summoned Dadaru'er, which transformed into a Steel Behemoth and fired its Magic Cannons at the hive.

Roy and Dadaru'er crushed the Blood Seal Demon Bees’ hive, then Roy spared the intelligent queen bee in exchange for its treasure. The queen offered gemstones that began to manifest an Advanced Talent.

• Dadaru'er charged into the hive and defeated the attacking Blood Seal Demon Bees, while Roy collected bee corpses and hive fragments for research.
• The Demon Bees’ corrosive attacks damaged Dadaru'er's surface until its Level 3 Magitech Device and nuclear power furnace raised a protective energy shield.
• Dadaru'er dug into the hive’s central chamber and exposed the queen bee, which pleaded with Roy to spare its life.
• Roy demanded the queen bee’s treasure in exchange for its life, and the Queen Bee Guard brought him more than a dozen gemstones.
• A Phantom Panel appeared as an Advanced Talent began to manifest from the gemstones.

Roy obtained fourteen Level 3 Soul Stones from the Queen Bee and made her his follower. He refined a Soul Stone into the Sword Master skill, mastered Skill Refinement, and awakened two sword-related abilities within his Soul Phantom.

• Roy recognized the hive’s fourteen purple gemstones as rare Soul Stones and suspected they had contributed to the Queen Bee’s intelligence.
• Roy accepted the Queen Bee’s other treasures, emerged from the hive, and bound her to him with a Wizard’s Contract and his Secret Rune.
• At the Mage Mansion, Roy identified one Soul Stone as a Skill Seed for Sword Master and decided to refine it using his Soul Refinement talent.
• Roy successfully mastered Skill Refinement and absorbed the Soul Stone’s spirituality, gaining an instinctive understanding of swordsmanship.
• Roy’s Soul Phantom manifested the Tearing Sword and Sword Master abilities, along with the mysterious power previously absorbed from a Sacred Mark Stone.

Roy demonstrated his combined swordsmanship and Hair Ghost Witch Body to Planje, then led the others on an expedition that uncovered a vast scalp-like region called the Hair Felt Grassland. On their return toward the Faded Desert, Roy received Shan Lut’s distress message saying Abyssal Demons had surrounded him.

• Roy sparred with Planje, revealed his swordsmanship and Hair Ghost Witch Body, and realized he had attained the skills of a Sword Master.
• Roy and his companions traveled onward, investigated strange terrain and blood ponds, and struggled to follow Sailen’s map through the changed landscape.
• Roy discovered that the apparent grassland was hair growing from giant wrinkled skin and named it Hair Felt Grassland on the map.
• Roy decided against traveling farther north and led everyone back toward the Faded Desert.
• On the sixth day, Roy received Shan Lut’s emergency message that Abyssal Demons had surrounded him.

Roy learned that the mission contract had deducted half his reward because he had not answered Shan Lut’s distress call in time. When Tirros, Della, and Bodeka were overwhelmed by demons, Roy flew toward them on a missile and arrived just as a Horned Demon Leader attacked.

• Roy saw that Shan Lut’s distress message was from the previous day and learned that the contract had deducted half his reward for failing to save him.
• Roy received a live distress call from Tirros, Della, and Bodeka, who were surrounded by thousands of demons near the entrance.
• Roy realized the three Wizards were drawing the Demon Army toward their escape route and decided to help them.
• Roy launched himself toward the group on a Level 2 missile and told Winsbell and Planje to watch Melina.
• Tirros, Della, and Bodeka struggled to break through as their followers and supplies dwindled, while a powerful Horned Demon Leader attacked Bodeka.
• Roy arrived in his Platinum Battle Armor, blasted demons with the missile’s explosion, and drove his sword into the Horned Demon Leader’s back.

Roy joined Tirros, Della, and Bodeka under attack by a demon swarm and annihilated more than a thousand demons with his swordsmanship. After the group fought on for a long time, Winsbell and the others arrived on a magic carpet.

• Roy killed the wounded demon and reunited with Tirros, Della, and Bodeka, who asked where his followers were.
• Roy left the protection of Phantom Dust and faced the surrounding demon swarm, confident that none of the creatures exceeded Level 1.
• Roy unleashed Blade Storm, killing more than a thousand demons and astonishing Tirros, Della, and Bodeka.
• Roy armored himself with Petrified Skin and repeatedly used Blade Storm while Tirros, Della, and Bodeka helped control the battlefield.
• Roy withdrew briefly to drink a Mana Potion, and Winsbell and the others arrived on a magic carpet.

Roy helped Tirros, Della, Bodeka, and their followers defeat the remaining monsters, then demanded repayment for saving their lives. After collecting several offerings and secret techniques, the group gathered demon materials and left the area.

• Tirros, Della, and Bodeka finished killing the remaining monsters and thanked Roy for saving them.
• Roy rejected their excuses and demanded valuable items or knowledge in repayment.
• Tirros offered Chalk Soil body parts, Della offered ordinary Elemental Gems, and Bodeka gave Roy a damaged Level 2 magic treasure, Oona's Music Box.
• Roy required Tirros and Della to teach him unfamiliar secret techniques, so they each shared part of their Inherited Witchcraft.
• The group collected valuable materials from the demon corpses, which soon decayed into smoke, then hurried away.

Roy examined the Soul Stones he had recovered from the Blood Seal Demon Bees, refining an Abyssal Language Mastery seed and discovering three high-level skill seeds. Their power exposed the limits of his current body, leaving him considering a Level 2 Wizard body before he pursued a new Source of Magic Power.

• Roy returned to the Witch Tower with Tirros, Della, Bodeka, and the others, carrying fourteen Soul Stones from the Blood Seal Demon Bees and leaving the bees as a hidden asset.
• Roy examined a Soul Stone and found the Abyssal Language Mastery seed, then began painstakingly removing its demonic impurities.
• Roy studied the other Soul Stones over several days, finding memories and experience that he planned to have Intelligent Brain Sailen analyze.
• Roy opened the remaining stones and found the skill seeds Otherworld Summoning, Projection Spell, and Shadow Stealth.
• Roy realized his Golden Behemoth body and soul could not readily support more high-level skills, so he considered obtaining a Level 2 Wizard body before advancing his magic power.

Roy concluded that he could pursue Level 2 promotion by creating a Level 2 Wizard Body and began gathering the resources for it. He reunited with Lunnia, bought his Anzire Magic Gold alloy, and invited him to consider working in Netherland.

• Roy reasoned that a Level 2 Wizard Body could nourish his mind and soul, helping him form a Source of Magic Power, and assessed that he had the resources to attempt the plan.
• As December ended, Roy collected materials and valuables for his Level 2 Wizard Body and found that Lunnia was selling a valuable component.
• Roy met Lunnia in the Demiplane, bought his treasures, and acquired an Anzire Magic Gold alloy that could support lightning equipment.
• Roy asked about Lunnia's travels and invited him to take a temporary job in Netherland, where Frosv was offering 200,000 heads as payment.
• Lunnia agreed to visit Netherland and consider working for Frosv for five to ten years if they reached a satisfactory agreement.

Roy recruited Bodeka and another wizard to help Frosv, then received permission to leave the Netherland World and seek advancement in the Talin World. He and his companions traveled there to join the war against the Heartless and meet Frosv’s former disciple Igor.

• Roy contacted Bodeka, who agreed to travel to the War Lizardmen tribe and explore the opportunities Roy described.
• Roy told Frosv that he wanted to leave the Netherland World, and Frosv agreed after discussing possible destinations with him.
• Frosv recommended the Talin World, where the Seven Towers Alliance was waging war and Igor was stationed as an Advanced Wizard.
• Roy and his companions entered the Witch Tower’s Weird Plane and traveled to the Talin World.

Roy arrived in the Talin World, where Simondo explained the Heartless and arranged a residence for him. The next morning, Roy’s Phantom Panel revealed that he had acquired the Silver Rank alchemy talent Flamel's Fortune.

• Simondo welcomed Roy on behalf of Lord Igor, who was away responding to a Heartless attack.
• Simondo explained that Heartless were created by Demon God Residue and could develop into Talin Witch Bodies.
• Simondo escorted Roy to an estate near Lord Igor's manor and gave him his Communication Mark.
• Roy spent the night cautiously meditating in his unfamiliar residence.
• Roy’s Phantom Panel confirmed that he had acquired the Silver Rank talent Flamel's Fortune, which could transform mercury into gold and create gold-type enchanted products.

Roy tested Golden Alchemy by turning mercury into unstable artificial gold and considered how refined gold could be used in rune-array plates. Igor, a fellow disciple of Frosv, visited Roy, and they went together to meet Uller after Simondo reported that the Level 3 Wizard wanted to see him.

• Roy used Golden Alchemy to refine mercury, producing an unstable gold and platinum alloy, and realized the process was inefficient at his current skill level.
• Roy gained basic knowledge of jewelry crafting and gold refinement, then considered using Brilliant Gold for rune-array plates.
• A servant told Roy that Igor had arrived, and Igor introduced himself as Roy's senior fellow disciple and discussed the potential of the Talin World.
• Simondo contacted Roy to say that Uller wanted to meet him, and Igor offered to accompany Roy while reporting on a mission.
• Roy and Igor went to the city's center and met Uller, the Level 3 Wizard stationed there.

Roy met Uller and accepted a mission to investigate and capture a Heartless in Black Sheep Village, hoping to earn a high-quality Talin Witch Body. He learned that Talin could not be taken from a Heartless, then arrived at the village forest to search for the fugitive Old Blind Man.

• Roy met Uller, who agreed to share Roy’s Communication Mark and Shop Mark with the local wizards and assigned him to capture a Heartless near Black Sheep Village.
• Igor explained that the mature Talin inside a Heartless could not be seized or transferred, and that Uller alone held the authority to teach the arts for obtaining a Talin Witch Body.
• Roy learned from Igor that removing one’s heart did not produce a self-aware Heartless suitable as a Talin Witch Body.
• Roy traveled with Winsbell and the others to Black Sheep Village, where the Heartless Old Blind Man had fled into the forest after attacking villagers and travelers.
• Roy reached Old Blind Man’s wooden house, opened the courtyard gate, and walked inside.

Roy tracked down and captured the Old Blind Man, an Unfeeling with immense strength and regeneration. After examining the monster, Roy discovered that its heart cavity held a powerful spiritual substance and concluded that it could only be killed by draining the Taylin from it.

• Roy searched the abandoned house and questioned villagers, then followed a young man’s directions into the mountains.
• Roy sent Planje and Melina to search while he waited in the Mage Mansion’s valley with his companions.
• Planje captured the Old Blind Man and brought him to Roy in chains.
• Roy tested the Unfeeling’s strength and regeneration, and found that the Kirik Magic Ring could not control its chaotic will.
• Roy opened the Unfeeling’s chest and discovered a heartless cavity filled with a dark spiritual substance resembling Soul Pigment.
• Roy concluded that the Unfeeling could only be killed by completely draining the Taylin from its heart cavity.

Roy returned to Uller with a captured Heartless and received a mission to help conquer the Kingdom of Gemid alongside two stationed wizards. After meeting Gacia and Gard, Roy learned that the necromancers had created powerful zombies from Heartless corpses, and he grew interested in obtaining some for research.

• Roy reported to Uller, who explained the Alliance's effort to conquer the world and assigned him to help defeat the Kingdom of Gemid's Heartless army.
• Roy exchanged his mission contribution for mercury and heard Uller offer to buy corpses from the conquered kingdoms.
• Roy traveled to the Kingdom of Gemid and met the stationed wizards Gacia and Gard, who both had Peak Level 1 power.
• Gard told Roy to observe their strategy before acting, but Roy calmly rejected his advice, leaving Gard displeased.
• Gacia showed Roy agile, powerful zombies refined from Heartless, and Roy resolved to look for a chance to obtain Heartless for research.